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Los Angeles Maritime Museum : <font size=3pt face='times' color=seagreen>The Los Angeles Maritime Museum creates an awareness and appreciation of the maritime history of coastal California, with an emphasis on the people and institutions of the port city of Los Angeles. The Museum is located in the 1941 Municipal Ferry Terminal, now on the National Register of Historic Places. From 1941-1963, a ferry system transported thousands of passengers to the canneries and military bases on Terminal Island, where they could also make connections to neighboring cities and towns. http://www.lamaritimemuseum.org/

In this location, I used the Nikon D300 and the Nikon 14-24 F/2.8</font>

Los Angeles Maritime Museum

The Los Angeles Maritime Museum creates an awareness and appreciation ...

Updated: Sep 19, 2009 12:20pm PST

Gene Autry Museum of the American West : <font size=3pt face='times' color=seagreen>The Museum of the American West provides learning opportunities for all people by exploring the myths and realities of the American West and its diverse populations. The museum enhances the understanding of the present by collecting, preserving, and interpreting objects and art, making connections between people today and those who have shaped the past. (http://www.autrynationalcenter.org/) In this location, I used the Nikon D300 and the Nikon 14-24 f/2.8, an exceptional lens for low-light conditions and no flash.

How dark was it inside? There were some places where I could not see well enough to walk-around. How was this lens able to even take pictures? I have no idea. I know from my film days of 50mm f/1.4, that I could not take these pictures, in the dark, without resting the camera and even then, I felt very lucky if any pictures, other than black, came out. I was able to shoot all the pictures handheld and without any kind of support. The shoot also presented unique challenges – reflections from the acrylic type of “glass” from the displays. It reflected everything, but it was worse. Many of displays were next or facing each other. Therefore, they reproduced reflection of reflections of reflections…It was like having two mirrors facing each other and the infinite amount of reflections you get. The easy solution would have been to press the lens against the glass. However, that will never happen with the 14-24 with its exposed bulbous front element. One good thing, though. I did not have the same problems with noise as I did in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. I had some, but it was easily managed by Capture NX 2, Lightroom 2, or both – no Noise Ninja, this time. </font>

Gene Autry Museum of the American West

The Museum of the American West provides learning opportunities for al ...

Updated: Sep 19, 2009 12:10pm PST

Los Angeles County Museum of Art : <font size=3pt face='times' color=seagreen>With 100,000 objects dating from ancient times to the present, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is the largest art museum in the western United States. LACMA’s seven-building complex is located on twenty acres in the heart of Los Angeles, halfway between the ocean and downtown. The campus is undergoing a ten-year expansion and renovation known as the Transformation. LACMA’s collections encompass the geographic world and virtually the entire history of art. Among the museum’s special strengths are its holdings of Asian art, Pavilion for Japanese Art; Latin American art, ranging from pre-Columbian masterpieces to works by leading modern and contemporary artists including Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, and José Clemente Orozco, and Islamic art, of which LACMA hosts one of the most significant collections in the world. ( http://www.lacma.org/ ) In this location I used the Nikon D300 and the Nikon 14-24 f/2.8 </font>

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

With 100,000 objects dating from ancient times to the present, the Los ...

Updated: Sep 19, 2009 12:08pm PST

Brookgreen Gardens : 8/17/09 - Myrtle Beach, SC

Brookgreen Gardens is a non-profit outdoor museum. It includes a sculpture garden, walking trails, zoo, and gardens.

Brookgreen Gardens

8/17/09 - Myrtle Beach, SC Brookgreen Gardens is a non-profit outdo ...

Updated: Aug 18, 2009 7:24am PST

The Smithsonian Museums & Artifacts : Photographs of the Museum buildings and some of their contents.

The Smithsonian Museums & Artifacts

Photographs of the Museum buildings and some of their contents.

Updated: Jul 09, 2009 5:00pm PST

Valley of the kings - Inside the chambers 06/2009 : The curse of the pharaohs? May be.
With guards protecting the sacred sites, I paid over 50 Euros in bribes (US $ 70) to take pictures inside the tombs. But I failed to notice that I changed the settings of my silently operating small digital Canon camera, hence most images turned out to be black.
Enjoy what turned out to be ok.

Valley of the kings - Inside the cham...

The curse of the pharaohs? May be. With guards protecting the sacred s ...

Updated: Jul 08, 2009 12:55am PST

Munich - Residenz Treasury Museum 04/2009 : For over 500 years the home of numerous Bavarian sovereigns, today mainly a museum.
Located right in the heart of downtown Munich

Munich - Residenz Treasury Museum 04/...

For over 500 years the home of numerous Bavarian sovereigns, today mai ...

Updated: Jul 05, 2009 6:23am PST

Getty Museum : <font size=3pt face='times' color=seagreen>The Getty Center presents the Getty's collection of Western art from the Middle Ages to the present against a backdrop of dramatic architecture, beatiful gardens, and breathtaking views. Since opening in 1997, has quickly assumed its place in the L.A. landscape as the city's cultural acropolis. Headquarters for the Getty Trust's research, education, philanthropic, and conservation concerns, the postmodernist complex -- perched on a hillside in the Santa Monica mountains and swathed in Italian travertine marble -- is most frequently visited for the museum galleries displaying the Getty's enormous collection of Impressionist paintings, French furniture and decorative arts, fine illuminated manuscripts, contemporary photography, and European drawings. The area that's open to the public consists of five two-story pavilions set around an open courtyard, and each gallery within is specially designed to complement the works on display. (http://www.getty.edu/visit/)

In this location, I used the Nikon D40 and the Nikon AF 24mm f/2.8D and the AF 50mm f/1.8D.</font>

The Getty Center presents the Getty's collection of Western art from t ...

Updated: Jun 18, 2009 11:46am PST

Queen Mary : <font size=3pt face='times' color=seagreen>Located just across the harbor from Aquarium of the Pacific, this 81,237 ton passenger liner (overall length 1,019.5 ft.) that entered service in 1936 was retired in 1967 and arrived in Long Beach, Calif. where it is permanently moored. During World War II, the Queen Mary carried a total of 765,429 military personnel, sailed a total of 569,429 miles, carried up to 15,000 troops at one time, carried wounded returning to the United States, transported Winston Churchill three times to conferences and carried 12,886 G.I. brides and children. It is now a a museum and a resort hotel. http://www.queenmary.com/

In this location, I used the Nikon D40 and the AF-S 18-70 DX</font>

Located just across the harbor from Aquarium of the Pacific, this 81,2 ...

Updated: Jun 18, 2009 11:44am PST

Getty Villa : <font size=3pt face='times' color=seagreen>Oil magnate J. Paul Getty used some of his vast wealth to amass an incredible art and antiquities collection. In the early 70s, he had a Romanesque villa constructed next to his house to be a permanent museum for his collection. The Getty Villa, modeled after the partially excavated Villa dei Papiri in Italy, became the home of the J. Paul Getty Museum in 1974. After a nine-year, $275 million renovation and expansion the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa has re-opened as home to the Museum’s Antiquities Collection. In terms of pure grandeur, it puts most other art museums to shame. Only the Huntington Library & Gardens can rival the Getty Villa for the sheer beauty of its grounds and buildings. Perched atop a small hill overlooking Pacific Coast Highway and the ocean, the Getty Villa sits in all its elegance like some grand Roman villa of old. (http://www.getty.edu/visit/) In this location, I used the Nikon D40 and the Nikon AF-S 18-70 DX. The lens came through as with the San Juan Capistrano shoot.</font>

Oil magnate J. Paul Getty used some of his vast wealth to amass an inc ...

Updated: Jun 18, 2009 11:33am PST

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Highlights from the British Museum : Just some of the many priceless and beautiful pieces from the British Museum.

Highlights from the British Museum

Louvre - Statues : The Louvre has hundreds, if not thousands of statues, some by famous artists and some by obscure or even forgotten artists. Some statues are thousands of years old, and some, maybe hundreds of years old.

The majority of these are by French artists.

You can download a free Windows slideshow of this album and the other Louvre albums together at http://www.higginsoft.com/files/LouvreSlideShow.exe (174 MB). There is no screensaver available, because it would probably be way too large to work anyway.

Louvre - Statues

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